The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.

The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.